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THE 

UNITED  DEMOCRATIC 
NATIONS  OF  THE  WORLD 


JL 

To  be  organized  to  establish  and 
maintain  the  peace  of  the  world. 

A  Jr  J. 

By  Allen  Ripley  Foote 


Published  by 

AMERICAN  PROGRESS 

OFFICE,  63  HOME  LIFE  BUILDING 

Washington,  D.C. 

1917 


Copyright,  1917,  by  Allen  Ripley  Foote 


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TOPICAL  REFERENCES 

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The  United  Democratic  Nations  of  the  World  5 

A  Declaration  of  Principles .  7 

The  Spirit  of  a  Democratic  Declaration  of  War  1 2 

United  Democracy  the  Hope  of  the  World  ...  17 

The  Terms  of  an  Enduring  Peace .  19 

Restoration  is  not  Indemnification .  22 

A  Just  and  Durable  Peace  Guaranteed .  22 

A  Flag  for  the  United  Democratic  Nations  of 
the  World .  24 

Universal  Good  Will .  24 

Friends  Resurrected  from  Enemies’  Graves  26 


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THE 

UNITED  DEMOCRATIC 
NATIONS  OF  THE  WORLD 


JU  JU  4. 

To  be  organized  to  establish  and 
maintain  the  peace  of  the  world. 

A  4. 

By  Allen  Ripley  Foote 


The  peace  of  the  world  must  be  founded  upon 
God’s  Law  of  Peace  and  Justice  as  declared  by  the 
Prince  of  Peace : 

“ Therefore  all  things  whatsoever  ye  would  that  men 
should  do  to  you ,  do  ye  even  so  to  them;  for  this  is  the 
law  and  the  prophets .”  (Matthew,  7:12.) 

Christ  condemned  the  invaders  of  nations,  and 
the  pillagers  of  their  people,  in  the  following  judi¬ 
cial  opinion  which  affirms  the  Brotherhood  of 
Man  and  the  Fatherhood  of  God :  “  Inasmuch  as  ye 
have  done  it  unto  one  of  the  least  of  these  my  brethren , 
ye  have  done  it  unto  me."  (Matthew,  25:40.) 

The  German  Government  had  power  to  destroy 


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its  treaty  of  peace  with  Belgium,  treating  it  as  of 
no  more  value  than  a  scrap  of  paper,  but  it  has  no 
power  to  nullify  the  law  of  God,  for  disobeying 
which  it  stands  condemned  before  the  bar  of 
human  intelligence  and  in  the  presence  of  God. 

The  duty  of  nations  to  honor  and  obey  the 
moral  law  was  declared  by  the  Father  of  American 
Democracy,  Thomas  Jefferson,  when,  in  his  in¬ 
augural  address,  1804,  he  said: 

“ We  are  firmly  convinced ,  and  we  act  on  that  con¬ 
viction,  that  with  nations ,  as  with  individuals ,  our 
interests  soundly  calculated  will  ever  be  found  in¬ 
separable  from  our  moral  duties ,  and  that  the  code 
of  honor  and  justice  for  individuals  and  for  nations 
must  be  identical .” 

Those  who  believe  in  justice  are  willing  to  unite 
in  working  and  fighting  to  establish  and  maintain 
justice.  They  know  that  a  power  which  defies  the 
Laws  of  God  and  Man  and  violates  the  rights  of  a 
single  nation  will  violate  the  rights  of  all  nations 
unless  it  is  compelled  by  superior  force  to  recog¬ 
nize  and  obey  the  moral  law.  They  know  that  the 
only  enduring  peace  will  be  a  peace  born  of  right¬ 
eousness,  founded  on  the  principles  of  justice  and 
guaranteed  by  the  United  Democratic  Nations  of 
the  world. 


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A  DECLARATION  OF  PRINCIPLES1 


When  in  the  course  of  human  events  it  becomes 
necessary  for  Democratic  Nations  to  unite,  to 
establish  and  maintain  the  peace  of  the  world, 
and  they  undertake  to  place  limitations  upon  the 
power  of  autocratic  governments  to  invade  and 
pillage  other  nations  and  their  people  and  to 
deprive  them  of  their  inalienable  right  to  the 
freedom  of  the  seas,  and  to  all  natural  straits  and 
channels  by  which  seas  are  connected,  a  decent 
respect  for  the  opinions  of  mankind  requires  that 
they  should  declare  the  causes  which  impel  them 
to  take  such  action. 

The  Democratic  Nations  of  the  world  in  uniting 
to  establish  and  maintain  the  peace  of  the  world 
hold  these  truths  to  be  self-evident: 

1 .  That  all  men  and  all  nations  are  equal  before 
the  law  of  God. 

2.  That  they  are  endowed  with  certain  inalien¬ 
able  rights  among  which  are  the  right  to  life,  lib¬ 
erty  and  the  orderly  pursuit  of  happiness. 

To  secure  these  rights,  for  all  men  and  for  all 
nations,  a  Union  of  the  Democratic  Nations  of  the 

1  Note. — In  writing  this  Declaration  of  Principles  the 
wording  and  style  of  the  American  Declaration  of  Inde¬ 
pendence,  issued  to  the  world  in  1776,  have  been  followed. 


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world  is  hereby  instituted ,  deriving  its  just  powers 
from  the  consent  of  the  nations  comprising  this 
Union,  laying  its  foundations  on  such  principles, 
and  organizing  its  powers  in  such  form  as  to  them 
shall  seem  most  likely  to  secure  safety  and  happi¬ 
ness  for  themselves  and  for  their  people,  insure 
their  moral  and  economic  development,  and  en¬ 
able  them  to  make  true  progress  “in  the  direction 
of  growth  of  justice ;  justice  between  man  and  man ; 
justice  between  employer  and  employee;  justice 
within  the  law;  justice  displayed  in  the  honesty 
and  ability  of  courts;  justice  of  the  state  towards 
its  citizens;  justice  of  nation  to  nation.”2 

Prudence,  indeed,  will  indicate  that  the  powers 
of  free  Democratic  Nations  long  established  should 
not  be  united  for  light  and  transient  causes;  and, 
accordingly,  all  experience  hath  shown  that  man¬ 
kind  is  more  disposed  to  suffer,  while  evils  are 
sufferable,  than  to  right  themselves  by  forming 
governments  for  mutual  protection.  But,  when  a 
long  train  of  abuses  and  usurpations,  practiced  by 
autocratic  governments  pursuing  invariably  the 

2  Note. — Theodore  Marburg.  World  Court  and  League 
of  Peace.  Publications  of  the  American  Society  for  Judicial 
Settlement  of  International  Disputes.  No.  20,  February, 
1915. 


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same  object  by  making  war  to  establish  and  main¬ 
tain  their  jurisdiction  over  other  nations  and  their 
people  by  force,  evidences  a  design  to  hold  the 
people  of  the  nations  they  invade  under  an  abso¬ 
lute  despotism,  it  is  the  right,  it  is  the  duty  of  all 
free  Democratic  Nations  to  unite  to  restrain  the 
power  of  autocratic  governments  shown  to  be 
guilty  of  such  abuses  of  their  power,  and  to  pro¬ 
vide  efficient  and  self-perpetuating  safeguards 
against  future  violations  of  the  peace  of  the  world. 

Such  has  been  the  patient  sufferance  of  free 
Democratic  Nations,  and  such  is  now  the  neces¬ 
sity  which  constrains  them  to  form  a  union  by 
means  of  which  they  can  restrain  the  irresponsible 
power  of  autocratic  governments  which  has  been 
used  in  all  ages  to  establish  and  maintain  their 
jurisdiction  by  the  use  of  force;  which  has  devel¬ 
oped  and  perpetuated  a  spirit  of  national,  racial 
and  religious  hatred  in  opposition  to  the  spirit  of 
the  brotherhood  of  man;  and  which  has  invariably 
deified  the  crime  of  murder  and  crucified  the  spirit 
of  love. 

The  history  of  all  warring  autocratic  nations  is  a 
history  of  repeated  injuries  and  usurpations,  all  hav¬ 
ing,  in  direct  object,  the  establishment  of  an  abso¬ 
lute  tyranny  over  other  nations  and  their  subjects. 


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We,  therefore,  being  free  Democratic  Nations, 
in  the  act  of  creating  this  Union  to  establish  and 
maintain  the  peace  of  the  world,  appealing  to  the 
Supreme  Judge  of  the  world  for  the  rectitude  of 
our  intentions,  do  in  the  name  and  by  the  author¬ 
ity  of  our  sovereign  governments  solemnly  publish 
and  declare: 

First.  That  the  rights  of  nations,  and  of  their 
people,  to  a  free  and  orderly  development  of  their 
moral  and  economic  well-being;  to  freedom  to 
pursue  their  own  social  and  industrial  improve¬ 
ment  within  the  boundaries  of  their  own  country, 
in  their  own  way;  and  to  a  free  and  unabridged 
use  of  the  high  seas,  and  to  all  natural  straits  and 
channels  by  which  seas  are  connected,  are  in¬ 
alienable. 

Second.  That  the  maintenance  of  an  armed  force 
capable  of  invading  another  nation  must  be  elimi¬ 
nated  from  the  powers  and  purposes  of  government 
to  make  it  certain  that  all  nations  shall  be  relieved 
from  the  exhausting  necessity  of  maintaining  the 
means  of  protecting  themselves  against  invasions, 
and  that  humanity  may  be  relieved  from  the  horrors 
of  destruction  and  pillage  and  never  again  be  cruci¬ 
fied  by  the  slaughter  of  wars  of  invasion. 

Third.  That  it  is  a  fundamental  requirement  for 


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the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  an  effective 
Union  of  Democratic  Nations,  that  no  member 
nation  shall  declare  a  separate  war  or  conclude  a 
separate  peace. 

Fourth.  That  this  Union  shall  have  power  to 
enforce  its  decrees  and  to  secure  collective  re¬ 
sponsibility  for  the  maintenance  and  enforcement 
of  international  laws  which  correctly  express  the 
judgment  of  its  collective  international  mind. 

Fifth.  That  the  might  of  all  shall  defend  the 
rights  of  each;  that  the  power  of  the  strong  shall 
be  a  defense  for  the  weak. 

Sixth.  That  the  power  to  declare  war  and  to 
levy  taxes  therefor  shall  be  the  exclusive  pre¬ 
rogative  of  representative  assemblies  the  mem¬ 
bers  of  which  are  elected  by  the  citizens  of  the 
nation,  exercising  a  free  right  of  equal  universal 
suffrage,  who  are  to  be  required  to  sacrifice  their 
lives  and  property  in  sustaining  the  cause  of 
armed  conflict. 

Seventh.  As  free  and  sovereign  Democratic 
Nations,  we  hereby  reserve  to  the  people  of  our 
countries,  acting  through  their  duly  elected  and 
authorized  representatives,  the  unrestricted  right  to 
exercise  all  powers  not  herein  specifically  delegated 
to  the  United  Democratic  Nations  of  the  World. 


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Believing  that  we  correctly  express  the  aspirations 
of  the  soul  of  the  people  in  all  nations,  we  hereby 
unite  for  the  support  of  the  foregoing  declarations, 
and  cordially  invite  all  nations  whose  democratic 
form  of  government  renders  them  eligible  to  mem¬ 
bership  in  this  Union,  to  join  with  us  for  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  establishing  and  maintaining  the  peace  of 
the  world. 

With  a  firm  reliance  upon  the  protection  and 
guidance  of  Divine  Providence,  we  mutually 
pledge  to  each  other  our  lives,  our  fortunes,  and 
our  sacred  honor  and  declare  that  no  nation  herein 
represented  shall  withhold  an  ounce  of  its  strength 
from  the  task  of  relieving  the  nations  of  the  world 
from  the  perpetual  menace  of  invasion,  by  the 
creation  of  a  world  police  force  that  can  and  will 
compel  would-be  invading  nations  to  respect  the 
territorial  rights  of  all  nations  great  or  small. 

THE  SPIRIT  OF  A  DEMOCRATIC  DECLARATION  OF  WAR 

President  Woodrow  Wilson,  in  his  address  to 
the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  delivered  at 
Washington,  April  2,  1917,  gave  a  true  voice  to  the 
spirit  of  democracy  when  he  said : 

****** 

“With  the  profound  sense  of  the  solemn  and 


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even  tragical  character  of  the  step  I  am  taking 
and  of  the  grave  responsibilities  which  it  involves, 
but  in  unhesitating  obedience  to  what  I  deem  my 
constitutional  duty,  I  advise  that  the  Congress 
declare  the  recent  course  of  the  Imperial  German 
Government  to  be  in  fact  nothing  less  than  war 
against  the  Government  and  people  of  the  United 
States;  that  it  formally  accept  the  status  of  bellig¬ 
erent  which  has  thus  been  thrust  upon  it ;  and  that 
it  take  immediate  steps  not  only  to  put  the  coun¬ 
try  in  a  more  thorough  state  of  defense  but  also 
to  exert  all  its  power  and  employ  all  its  resources 
to  bring  the  Government  of  the  German  Empire 
to  terms  and  end  the  war. 

“While  we  do  these  things,  these  deeply  momen¬ 
tous  things,  let  us  be  very  clear,  and  make  very 
clear  to  all  the  world  what  our  motives  and 
objects  are  ....  to  vindicate  the  principles  of 
peace  and  justice  in  the  life  of  the  world  as  against 
selfish  and  autocratic  power,  and  to  set  up  among 
the  really  free  and  self-governed  people  of  the 
world  such  a  concert  of  purpose  and  of  action  as 
will  henceforth  insure  the  observance  of  those 
principles. 


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11 . We  are  at  the  beginning  of  an  age 

in  which  it  will  be  insisted  that  the  same  standards 
of  conduct  and  of  responsibility  for  wrong  done 
shall  be  observed  among  nations  and  their  govern¬ 
ments  that  are  observed  among  the  individual 
citizens  of  civilized  states. 

“A  steadfast  concert  for  peace  can  never  be 
maintained  except  by  a  partnership  of  democratic 
nations.  No  autocratic  government  could  be 
trusted  to  keep  faith  within  it  or  observe  its 
covenants.  It  must  be  a  league  of  honor,  a  part¬ 
nership  of  opinion.  Intrigue  would  eat  its  vitals 
away ;  the  plottings  of  inner  circles  who  could  plan 
what  they  would  and  render  account  to  no  one 
would  be  a  corruption  seated  at  its  very  heart. 
Only  free  people  can  hold  their  purpose  and  their 
honor  steady  to  a  common  end  and  prefer  the 
interests  of  mankind  to  any  narrow  interest  of 
their  own. 

*  ^  *  :fc  Jfc  * 

“We  know  that  in  such  a  Government  (the 

Imperial  German  Government) . we  can 

never  have  a  friend;  and  that  in  the  presence  of  its 
organized  power,  always  lying  in  wait  to  accom¬ 
plish  we  know  not  what  purpose,  there  can  be  no 


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assured  security  for  the  democratic  governments 
of  the  world.  We  are  now  about  to  accept  the 
gage  of  battle  with  this  natural  foe  of  liberty,  and 
shall,  if  necessary,  spend  the  whole  force  of  the 
nation  to  check  and  nullify  its  pretentions  and 
power.  We  are  glad,  now  that  we  see  the  facts 
with  no  veil  of  false  pretense  about  them,  to  fight 
thus  for  the  ultimate  peace  of  the  world  and  for  the 
liberation  of  its  peoples,  the  German  peoples  in¬ 
cluded-  for  the  rights  of  nations,  great  and  small, 
and  the  privilege  of  men  everywhere  to  choose 
their  way  of  life  and  of  obedience. 

‘The  world  must  be  made  safe  for  democracy. 
Its  peace  must  be  planted  upon  the  tested  founda¬ 
tions  of  political  liberty.  We  have  no  selfish  ends 
to  serve.  We  desire  no  conquest,  no  dominion,  we 
seek  no  indemnities  for  ourselves,  no  material  com¬ 
pensation  for  the  sacrifices  we  shall  freely  make. 
We  are  but  one  of  the  champions  of  the  rights  of 
mankind.  We  shall  be  satisfied  when  these  rights 
have  been  made  as  secure  as  the  faith  and  the 
freedom  of  nations  can  make  them. 

“Just  because  we  fight  without  rancor  and  with¬ 
out  se fish  object,  seeking  nothing  for  ourselves  but 
what  we  shall  wish  to  share  with  all  free  peoples, 
we  shall,  I  feel  confident,  conduct  our  operations 


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as  belligerents  without  passion  and  ourselves  ob¬ 
serve  with  proud  punctilio  the  principles  of  right 
and  of  fair  play  we  profess  to  be  fighting  for. 

“It  will  be  easier  for  us  to  conduct  ourselves  as 
belligerents  in  a  high  spirit  of  right  and  fairness 
because  we  act  without  animus,  not  with  enmity 
toward  a  people  or  with  the  desire  to  bring  any 
injury  or  disadvantage  upon  them  but  only  in 
armed  opposition  to  an  irresponsible  government 
which  has  thrown  aside  all  considerations  of  hu¬ 
manity  and  of  right  and  is  running  amuck. 

“We  are  ....  the  sincere  friends  of  the 
German  people,  and  shall  desire  nothing  so  much 
as  the  early  re-establishment  of  intimate  relations 
of  mutual  advantage  between  us,  however  hard  it 
may  be  for  them  for  the  time  being  to  believe  that 
this  is  spoken  from  our  hearts.  We  have  borne 
with  their  present  Government  through  all  these 
bitter  months  because  of  this  friendship,  exercising 
a  patience  and  forbearance  which  would  otherwise 
have  been  impossible. 

“It  is  a  distressing  and  an  oppressive  duty,  gen¬ 
tlemen  of  the  Congress,  which  I  have  performed  in 


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thus  addressing  you.  There  are,  it  may  be,  many 
months  of  fiery  trial  and  sacrifice  ahead  of  us.  It 
is  a  fearful  thing  to  lead  this  great,  peaceful  people 
into  war,  into  the  most  terrible  and  disastrous  of  all 
wars,  civilization  itself  seeming  to  be  in  the  balance. 

“But  the  right  is  more  precious  than  peace,  and 
we  shall  fight  for  the  things  which  we  have  always 
carried  nearest  our  hearts — for  democracy,  for  the 
right  of  those  who  submit  to  authority  to  have  a 
voice  in  their  own  governments,  for  the  rights  and 
liberties  of  small  nations,  for  a  universal  dominion 
of  right  by  such  a  concert  of  free  peoples  as  shall 
bring  peace  and  safety  to  all  nations  and  make  the 
world  itself  at  last  free. 

“To  such  a  task  we  can  dedicate  our  lives  and 
our  fortunes,  everything  that  we  are  and  every¬ 
thing  that  we  have,  with  the  pride  of  those  who 
know  that  the  day  has  come  when  America  is 
privileged  to  spend  her  blood  and  her  might  for 
the  principles  that  gave  her  birth  and  happiness 
and  the  peace  which  she  has  treasured. 

“God  helping  her,  she  can  do  no  other.” 

UNITED  DEMOCRACY  THE  HOPE  OF  THE  WORLD 

It  is  the  hope  of  the  world  that  all  democratic 
governments  will  at  once  qualify  themselves  to 


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become  members  of  the  United  Democratic  Na¬ 
tions  of  the  World  by  at  once  declaring  war,  in 
the  spirit  of  this  democratic  declaration,  against 
all  autocratic  governments  now  engaged  in  in¬ 
vading  other  nations. 

The  first  action  of  this  democratic  Union  should 
be  the  issuing  of  a  proclamation  declaring  to  the 
people  of  all  invading  governments  that  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  all  nations  composing  this  Union  is  to 
suppress  the  lawless  acts  of  their  governments  in 
invading  and  pillaging  neighboring  nations,  and 
in  depriving  other  nations  of  their  right  to  the  free 
and  unmolested  navigation  of  the  high  seas,  and 
to  all  natural  straits  and  channels  by  which  seas 
are  connected,  and  stating  the  terms  upon  which 
negotiations  for  concluding  a  separate  or  a  collec¬ 
tive  peace  may  be  undertaken. 

The  people  of  invading  nations  must  be  made  to 
understand  that  no  nation  with  which  their  gov¬ 
ernment  is  at  war  has  any  purpose  of  invasion, 
conquest  or  pillage  regarding  them,  therefore,  that 
they  are  not  engaged  in  a  war  of  self-defense  for 
their  “Fatherland”  but  under  that  plea  have  been 
led  into  a  war  of  invasion  and  pillage  more  cruel 
and  unjust  than  any  war  ever  undertaken  by  any 
people  classed  as  intelligent  and  civilized. 


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THE  TERMS  OF  AN  ENDURING  PEACE 

The  most  effective  way  in  which  to  cause  the 
people  of  the  invading  nations  to  realize  the  truth 
regarding  the  war  in  which  their  governments  are 
engaged  is  to  notify  them  by  a  proclamation  issued 
by  the  United  Democratic  Nations  of  the  World, 
declaring  the  terms  which  they  will  enforce  as  a 
basis  for  an  enduring  peace,  as  follows : 

First .  That  terms  of  peace  will  not  be  discussed 
with  any  nation,  or  with  any  group  of  nations,  so 
long  as  a  single  one  of  its  soldiers  is  an  invader 
upon  the  soil  of  any  other  nation. 

Second.  That  the  United  Democratic  Nations 
of  the  World  pledge  themselves  not  to  invade  the 
territory  of  any  nation  that  recalls  its  soldiers 
within  the  borders  of  its  own  territory  and  there 
disarms  and  disbands  its  armies  mobilized  and 
employed  for  the  purpose  of  invading  the  territory 
of  any  other  nation. 

Third.  That  no  nation,  being  a  member  of  the 
United  Democratic  Nations  of  the  World,  whose 
territory  or  rights  upon  land  or  the  high  seas  has 
been  invaded  will  enforce  the  payment  of  an  in¬ 
demnity  by  the  invading  nation  to  reimburse  it 
for  expenses  incurred  by  reason  of  the  necessity 
thus  forced  upon  it  of  driving  such  invader  from 


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its  soil  or  compelling  such  nation  to  observe  its 
rights  on  the  high  seas,  providing  such  invader 
shall  withdraw  its  soldiers  within  the  boundaries 
of  its  own  territory  and  cause  its  interference  with 
the  rights  of  other  nations  upon  the  high  seas  to 
cease  within  thirty  days  after  the  promulgation  of 
such  proclamation. 

Fourth.  That  the  government  of  every  nation 
guilty  of  using  its  armed  force  for  the  purposes  of 
invasion  and  pillage  will  be  required  to  restore  all 
property  it  has  destroyed  on  land  or  the  high  seas, 
and  that  this  restoration  shall  be  in  kind  as  far  as 
practicable.  To  this  end  such  nations  will  be  re¬ 
quired  to  dismantle  all  plants  used  for  the  manu¬ 
facture  of  the  implements  and  munitions  of  war 
and  re-equip  them  for  the  manufacture  of  agri¬ 
cultural  implements,  machinery  for  producing 
commodities  of  commerce,  structural  iron  for  re¬ 
building  bridges  and  buildings,  and  equipment  for 
railroads,  and  to  re-equip  and  re-organize  its  ship¬ 
yards  for  the  building  of  ships  with  which  it  can 
replace  the  ships  it  has  destroyed,  being  the  prop¬ 
erty  of  other  nations  or  of  their  citizens. 

Fifth.  To  provide  metal  and  other  material 
required  for  this  work  of  restoration,  each  invad¬ 
ing  nation  will  be  required  to  collect  all  machinery 


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used  for  manufacturing  implements  and  munitions 
of  war,  and  all  such  implements  and  munitions,  at 
manufacturing  plants  equipped  to  put  them  into 
a  melting  pot  and  to  use  the  resultant  metal  and 
other  material  hr  the  manufacture  of  implements 
of  peace  to  be  delivered,  without  cost,  to  the 
people  of  the  invaded  nations  to  replace  similar 
property  destroyed  or  appropriated  by  soldiers 
and  others,  acting  under  the  orders  of,  or  with 
the  connivance  of  the  invading  nation. 

Sixth.  On  behalf  of  this  work  of  restoration,  to 
compensate  for  the  destruction  wrought,  each  in¬ 
vading  nation  will  be  required  to  build  and  deliver, 
without  cost,  to  the  owner  of  every  ship,  or  water 
craft  of  any  kind  destroyed  by  it,  ship  for  ship,  of 
equal  capacity,  equipment  and  speed. 

Seventh.  Every  invading  nation  that  has  caused 
the  death  or  injury  of  an  unarmed  citizen  of  an¬ 
other  nation  by  its  military  or  naval  operations 
will  be  required  to  pay  an  adequate  indemnity  to 
the  relatives  of  the  murdered  person,  or  to  the 
person  injured,  recognizing  the  fact  that  an  eco¬ 
nomic  loss  can  be  restored  but  human  life  is  not 
thereby  placed  on  sale  to  be  bought  and  paid  for 
by  its  destroyers. 

Eighth.  Every  invading  nation  will  be  required 


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to  pay  the  money  value  of  all  amounts  it  has  col¬ 
lected  from  persons,  or  from  their  municipal  gov¬ 
ernments  by  forced  taxation,  or  otherwise,  and  of 
all  supplies  requisitioned  by  its  soldiers  for  their 
own  use  or  for  the  use  of  their  government. 

RESTORATION  IS  NOT  INDEMNIFICATION 

These  suggestions  are  indicative  of  the  require¬ 
ments  of  justice.  They  are  not  complete  nor  ex¬ 
haustive.  They  are  written  to  show  the  people  of 
invading  nation  that  restoration  is  not  indemnifi¬ 
cation  for  the  costs  of  war  imposed  upon  invaded 
nations,  and  that  the  longer  the  invader  persists 
in  his  work  of  destruction  the  heavier  will  be  his 
task  of  restoration.  A  burglar  is  not  punished  by 
being  compelled  to  restore  the  goods  he  has  stolen. 

A  JUST  AND  A  DURABLE  PEACE  GUARANTEED 

When  hostilities  cease  the  Council  of  War  of  the 
United  Democratic  Nations  will  be  transformed 
into  a  Council  of  Peace.  It  will  be  the  duty  of  this 
council  to  formulate  the  terms  of  peace  and  to 
require  compliance  therewith  by  each  invading 
nation. 

These  terms  may  be  as  follows: 

First.  After  the  boundaries  of  nations  have  been 


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corrected  as  required  by  the  terms  of  peace  no 
change  in  a  national  boundary  shall  be  made  ex¬ 
cepting  as  the  result  of  peaceful  negotiation  ap¬ 
proved  by  the  Union  of  Democratic  Nations. 

Second.  Any  nation  ordering  an  invasion  of  the 
territory  of  another  nation,  or  interfering  in  any 
way  with  its  rights  on  the  high  seas  and  all  natural 
straits  and  channels  by  which  seas  are  connected, 
shall  at  once  be  declared  an  outlaw  among  nations 
and  all  intercourse  with  such  nation  on  the  part 
of  nations  composing  the  Union  of  Democratic 
Nations  shall  at  once  cease  and  shall  not  be  re¬ 
sumed  until  such  nation  shall  have  ceased  its  law¬ 
less  acts  and  given  security  for  its  future  good 
behavior. 

Third.  The  manufacture  by  any  nation  of  im¬ 
plements  and  munitions  of  war  for  use  on  land,  on 
the  high  seas  or  in  the  air  in  excess  of  its  require¬ 
ments  for  efficient  police  duty  within  its  own  terri¬ 
tory  shall  be  deemed  an  act  of  war  and  shall  be 
punished  by  an  immediate  severance  of  all  diplo¬ 
matic  and  commercial  relations  with  it  by  every 
government  represented  in  the  Union  of  the 
Democratic  Nations  of  the  World. 

These  provisions,  properly  stated  and  strictly  en¬ 
forced,  will  banish  war  from  the  face  of  the  earth. 


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To  the  accomplishment  of  this  purpose  all  the 
forces  of  the  universe  that  work  together  for  good 
stand  pledged. 

A  FLAG  FOR  THE  UNITED  DEMOCRATIC  NATIONS  OF 
THE  WORLD 

Created  to  establish  and  maintain  the  Peace  of 
the  World,  the  flag  of  the  United  Democratic 
Nations  of  the  World  will  be  a  banner,  in  the 
upper  left  corner  of  which  there  will  be  displayed 
a  radiating  sun  in  a  sky-blue  field  having  inscribed 
within  its  circle  the  declaration:  Universal  Good 
Will.  The  body  of  this  banner  will  be  striped  with 
all  the  prismatic  colors  of  the  rainbow — "The  Bow 
of  Promise 

Can  any  civilized  man,  can  any  civilized  nation 
refuse  to  be  a  defender  of  this  flag  and  to  defend 
it  to  his  last  drop  of  blood,  to  its  last  ounce  of 
power?  Can  any  civilized  man,  can  any  civilized 
nation  fire  upon  this  flag  and  make  war  upon  its 
defenders  and  remain  civilized? 

UNIVERSAL  GOOD  WILL 

When  peace  is  established,  the  need  of  promot¬ 
ing  good  will  among  men  and  nations  will  appear. 
In  this  work  all  who  conscientiously  desire  to  have 


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the  Will  of  God  done  on  earth  as  it  is  done  in 
heaven  must  themselves  respond  to  the  duty  of 
doing  as  they  would  be  done  by  in  every  action, 
thought  and  desire  of  their  hearts. 

Abraham  Lincoln  formulated  the  creed  of  peace 
when,  looking  forward  to  the  close  of  our  Civil 
War,  he  uttered  these  immortal  words: 

“ With  malice  towards  none ,  with  charity  for  all , 
let  us  strive  to  do  the  right  as  Cod  has  given  it  to  us 
to  see  the  right ,  that  a  government  of  the  people  by 
the  people  for  the  people  shall  not  perish." 

The  gains  of  life  are  various.  Some  objects  we 
pursue  disappear  as  we  grasp  them.  We  are  but 
children,  chasing  with  excited  delight  beautiful 
bubbles  floating  free  in  air.  We  touch  them  and 
they  vanish.  Some  objects  are  as  enduring  as  the 
eternal  truth  of  God.  We  pursue  them  with  the 
stern  courage  of  men  upborne  by  the  strength  of 
a  moral  conviction.  Though,  in  the  hour  of  trial 
and  triumph,  a  crown  of  thorns  be  pressed  upon 
our  brow,  the  memory  of  a  right  act,  courageously 
done,  will  enrich  the  soul  forever. 

In  the  crucible  of  conflict  men  become  molten. 
Their  blood  mingles.  Their  souls  blend.  Their 
lives  are  fused  into  the  life  of  their  Nation. 

On  battlefields  where  sons  of  democratic  nations 


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unite  to  establish  and  maintain  the  Peace  of  the 
World  and  shed  their  blood,  a  spirit  of  world  com¬ 
radeship  will  be  born  that  shall  live  through  all 
the  ages  and  will  be  a  masterful  guarantor  of  the 
peace  of  the  world. 

FRIENDS  RESURRECTED  FROM  ENEMIES’  GRAVES 

In  taking  security  for  the  future  against  the 
horrible  inhumanity  and  destruction  of  another 
war;  in  entering  upon  the  work  of  restoration  of 
physical  things;  in  raising  the  Flag  of  Democracy 
over  the  battlefields  of  Europe  and  the  high  seas, 
the  United  Democratic  Nations  of  the  World  have 
opportunity  to  cause  all  combatants  to  learn  the 
lesson  that  should  have  been  taught  by  every  con¬ 
flict  that  has  been  waged  between  man  and  man. 

This  is  the  lesson: 

No  cause  is  ever  completely  won  until  a  friend  is 
resurrected  from  the  grave  of  an  enemy;  no  cause  is 
ever  completely  lost  when  from  the  grave  of  an  enemy 
a  friend  is  resurrected. 

A  prophecy  that  the  American  people  would 
learn  this  lesson  was  uttered  when,  in  1865, 
Ulysses  S.  Grant  clasped  the  hand  of  Robert  E. 
Lee  and  said:  Let  us  have  peace. 

The  fact  that  the  American  people  have  learned 


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this  lesson  was  certified — “When  William  Mc¬ 
Kinley,  a  Union  soldier  (and  afterward  President 
of  the  United  States),  wearing  a  decorative  Con¬ 
federate  flag,  marched  in  triumph  through  the 
streets  of  Atlanta  (Georgia)  ringing  with  the 
cheers  of  the  people.”  It  was  attested — “When 
William  Howard  Taft  named  a  Confederate  soldier 
for  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States  ‘by  and  with 
the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate’  of  the  United 
States,  and  the  universal  approval  of  the  people 
of  the  Northern  States.”3 

The  fact  that  the  American  people  have  learned 
this  lesson  was  visualized  when,  in  1895 — thirty 
years  after  Grant  and  Lee  grasped  each  others 
hands — the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  com¬ 
posed  entirely  of  men  who  had  served  in  the  ranks 
of  the  Union  Army,  held  its  first  national  encamp¬ 
ment  upon  Southern  soil,  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  upon 
an  invitation  extended  through  a  Confederate 
soldier. 

“Never  (before)  had  there  been  such  a  fusion  of 
kindred  sentiment;  such  an  outpouring  of  brother¬ 
hood;  such  eager,  spontaneous  outbursts  of  song. 
.  .  .  .  The  walls  of  the  city,  the  hearts  of  the 

3  Editorial:  The  Courier-! our  rial,  Louisville,  Ky.,  April 
18,  1917. 


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people  were  clad  in  red,  white  and  blue.  From 
Maine  to  Texas  the  cry  went  up  in  praise  and 
thanks  to  God — The  War  of  Sections  is  over.’  “3 

The  fact  that  the  American  people  have  learned 
this  lesson  was  proven  when  the  stress  of  a  foreign 
war  came.  “It  was  thought  and  said,  if  there 
should  come  a  foreign  war,  the  proof  that  the 
War  of  Sections  is  over  will  even  more  vividly 
and  impressively  show  itself.  And  the  foreign  war 
did  come.  It  was  at  hand.  Its  earliest  victim 
chanced  to  be  a  Southern  lad.  With  Wheeler, 
Fitz  Lee  and  Wilson — the  self-same  Wilson  who 
had  captured  Jefferson  Davis — mated  in  Cuba, 
with  Miles  and  Castleman  in  Puerto  Rico,  what 
more  was  wanted? 

“.  .  .  .  The  glory,  the  name  and  the  fame  of 
the  soldiers  who  wore  the  blue  and  the  soldiers 
who  wore  the  gray  has  become  interchangeable. 
Forever  now  they  constitute  a  great  national 
asset,  dear  to  every  American  who  loves  his  coun¬ 
try  and  is  true  to  its  institutions,  for  the  nation 
is  at  length  as  it  was  intended  by  the  fathers  to  be 
and  as  it  was  thought  to  be  until  stress  and  trial 
revealed  the  shortcoming  and  welded  it  together 
as  never  before.”3 

The  fact  that  the  American  people  have  learned 


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this  lesson  was  glorified  when,  in  June,  1917,  upon 
the  invitation  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
the  Confederate  Veterans’  Association  held  its 
reunion  in  the  National  Capital. 

“Even  as  the  heroes  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic  were  welcomed  to  Louisville  the  heroes 
of  the  Confederate  Veterans’  Association  were 
welcomed  in  Washington. 

.  A  sublimer  sight  than  the  Stars  and 
Bars  intertwined  with  the  Stars  and  Stripes  in 
everlasting  fraternity  never  irradiated  the  sum¬ 
mer  air  than  was  seen  when  those  grizzled 
veterans  of  the  South  in  their  faded  uniforms 
marched  through  Pennsylvania  Avenue,  whilst 
Massachusetts  and  South  Carolina — New  Eng¬ 
land  and  the  Middle  West — the  States  of  the 
Atlantic  and  the  States  of  the  Pacific,  ‘in  Congress 
assembled,’  stood  heart  to  heart,  hand  to  hand, 
shoulder  to  shoulder  in  spiritual  embrace,  the 
world  looking  on  exalted  and  rejoiced,  the  God  of 
the  Universe  through  the  hosts  of  the  Lord  and 
Gideon  proclaiming  life  to  Democracy,  death  to 
Autocracy,  the  throng  in  London  and  in  Paris 
and  in  Rome  (in  Petrograd,  Pekin  and  Tokio) 
equally  with  the  throng  in  Washington  joining 
the  hallelujah.’’3 


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What  better  evidence  than  this  can  be  required 
to  prove  that,  when  the  sons  of  the  United  Demo¬ 
cratic  Nations  of  the  World  unite  on  the  battle¬ 
fields  of  Europe  to  establish  and  maintain  the 
Peace  of  the  World,  their  blood  will  mingle,  their 
souls  will  blend,  their  lives  will  be  fused  into  the 
life  of  their  Nations  and  a  Spirit  of  World  Com¬ 
radeship  will  be  born  that  shall  live  through  all 
the  ages  a  masterful  guarantor  of  the  Peace  of  the 
World? 

Our  eyes  are  beholding  another  resurrection  of 
friends  from  the  graves  of  enemies,  of  world- wide, 
prophetic  significance.  We  now  see  friends  arising 
from  the  graves  of  foes  who  fought  on  the  battle¬ 
fields  of  the  war  for  American  Independence,  from 
1776  to  1784.  We  now  behold  the  British  Union 
Jack,  the  French  Tri-Color  and  the  Stars  and 
Stripes  unfurled  alongside  each  other  and  floating 
free  in  the  breeze  over  the  House  of  Parliament  in 
London,  the  Eiffel  Tower  in  Paris  and  Indepen¬ 
dence  Hall  in  Philadelphia,  while  the  President 
and  people  of  the  United  States  entertain  War 
Commissions  from  the  Entente  Nations  of  Europe 
to  devise  ways  and  means  “to  make  the  world 
safe  for  Democracy.” 

Aye,  all  who  have  “eyes  to  see  and  ears  to  hear” 


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can  now  see  the  might  of  right  shining  forth,  can 
now  hear  the  rumbling  of  the  stone  of  autocratic 
power  as  it  is  hurled  away  from  the  sepulcher  of 
freedom  to  liberate  mankind  from  the  perpetual 
menace  of  invasion  by  the  armies  of  Autocratic 
Governments. 

While  the  Entente  Nations  of  Europe  are  teach¬ 
ing  the  American  Republic  how  to  make  war  it 
will  be  the  everlasting  glory  of  American  Democ¬ 
racy  to  teach  the  Powers  of  Europe  how  to  make 
and  maintain  Peace. 

By  causing  a  resurrection  of  friends  from  the 
graves  of  enemies,  with  which  the  battlefields  of 
Europe  and  the  depths  of  the  high  seas  are  now 
being  strewn,  the  United  Democratic  Nations  of 
the  World  will  accomplish  the  purpose  of  God  now 
to  establish  and  maintain  the  Peace  of  the  World. 

To  the  accomplishment  of  such  a  purpose  an 
overruling  Providence  that  has  caused  events  to 
lead  humanity  from  savagery  to  civilization,  from 
slavery  to  freedom,  from  ignorance  to  wisdom 
from  autocracy  to  democracy,  stands  pledged. 

The  purpose  of  true  statesmen  and  the  purpose 
of  God  is  identical — the  developing  and  safeguard¬ 
ing  of  the  common  good,  and  the  happiness  of  the 
people. 


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Behold  the  coming  of  the  day  when  the  United 
Democratic  Nations  of  the  World  organized  to 
work  or  to  fight  together  under  the  Flag  of 
Democracy,  shall  proclaim  an  Era  of  Universal 
Good  Will  and  guarantee  the  Peace  of  the  World. 

On  that  day  the  Ruler  of  the  Universe  “ shall 
judge  among  the  nations ,  and  shall  rebuke  many 
people ;  and  they  shall  beat  their  swords  into  plow¬ 
shares. ,  and  their  spears  into  pruning  hooks.  Nations 
shall  not  lift  up  sword  against  nation ,  neither  shall 
they  learn  war  any  more."  (Isaiah,  2:4.) 


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